• Architecture

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  • 07.Sep
  • Livable Streets c. 1969
  • Urban Omnibus unearths Ulrich Franzen’s 1969 video manifesto for rethinking Manhattan’s streets.

  • 04.Sep
  • Noble Salvage
  • Construction autodidact Dan Phillips builds low income housing out of salvaged wood, cork, glass and generously-attained plots.

  • 08.Aug
  • Coming Home To Roots
  • A ground-up collective of young professionals turned urban farmers sow seeds of eco-consciousness in Singapore, showing by example.

  • Business

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  • 17.Nov
  • It’s Time To Think Design.
  • Considering the case for a user-centred design thinking approach to, well, everything here.

  • 03.Nov
  • A Holy Smoke.
  • Puff the magic gadget: considering the case for a new smoking paradigm.

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  • 29.Aug
  • Creative Hospitality.
  • Swedish clothing brand Elvine spin a new yarn on Corporate Social Responsibility through Creator’s Inn, offering free digs for jetsetting creators.

  • Culture

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  • 03.Nov
  • Small Trades.
  • Irving Penn’s Small Trades project is a fascinating urban anthropological survey of midcentury labour, disappearing and otherwise.

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  • 16.Sep
  • Talking Bikeheads.
  • Artist-musician David Byrne installs place-specific bike racks in New York City to humorous effect.

  • 08.Aug
  • Street Singin’
  • Trend Report: Shed the urban straitjacket, grab your guitar, and take to the streets with music.

  • General

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  • 15.Oct
  • Mapping the City.
  • Darryl X Shan on the Radio Substation Special Podcast for the Singapore Art Show.

  • 09.Aug
  • Killing Me Softly.
  • I can offer free but not necessarily great tunes.

  • 09.Aug
  • Merdeka!
  • We Are Live! Shan celebrates Singapore’s 44 years with future-forward thinking.

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Thought Pieces is an ongoing survey of stuff I find interesting.

By taking inventory of intersecting trends and interests, Thought Pieces is an attempt to translate thought to reality.

It’s a sketchbook, a storehouse, and an open workshop of ideas about how to make life better.

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  • Kimmy: love what you put together. very inspiring. makes me wanna get off my tush to get my own art together!!!
  • Heather: Mmm, let’s go farming one day!

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